A report (PDF) published on Tuesday by Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation details China’s expanding exports of torture and law enforcement equipment. More than 130 companies, most of them state-owned, are now involved in the trade, up from 28 ten years ago. From Amnesty:
Some of the devices openly marketed by these companies – including electric shock stun batons, metal spiked batons, and weighted leg cuffs – are intrinsically cruel and inhumane